Teresa Burns Gunther
Teresa is an award-winning author whose fiction and nonfiction have been published widely in US and international literary journals and anthologies. Her stories have been recognized in many contests. Most recently, her story “Conflagration” was awarded Gemini Magazine’s 2023 Short Story Prize and her story “War Paint” was awarded the 52nd New Millennium Award for Fiction, 2022.
Teresa is the founder of Lakeshore Writers Workshop where she leads workshops and classes and offers coaching and developmental editing services.
Hold Off the Night’s twelve stories find people wrestling with the difficulties inherent in composing a life, navigating change, and salvaging relationships, complicated by class and faith, fear and loyalty, and longings that resonate with the broader human experience.
By Teresa Burns Gunther
Hold Off the Night
Short Stories
I am a storyteller. I write to explore the world in someone else’s skin and to greater understand the struggles of living. These stories invite readers into the lives of people wrestling with the difficulties inherent in composing a life, navigating change, and salvaging relationships. I hope readers will cheer for them, grieve with them, laugh with them, recognize something of themselves in the struggle, and perhaps for a little while know they are not alone.
